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Drought 2020

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    #452
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,705 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    I have silage ready to cut now, but neighbour was saying it's way too dry. He said it would be better to wait for some rain and then cut. Moisture way too low he says. I'm not set up to handle hay.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #453
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Mow and pit/ bale the following day. Line up the contractor. Every day it goes on quality will be dropping. If going in the pit make sure it's being well rolled.


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    #454
    Still waters
    Registered Users Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭Still waters


    You'd be as well to cut it if its ready no matter how light, what if this continues for a fortnight or more


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    #455
    GrasstoMilk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,851 ✭✭✭GrasstoMilk


    Mooooo wrote: »
    Mow and pit/ bale the following day. Line up the contractor. Every day it goes on quality will be dropping. If going in the pit make sure it's being well rolled.

    Or pit/bale straight away after mower
    It'll be nice stuff (25% DM) and itll only be it's own sap.
    Not a fan of over dry silage here. 30% dm is plenty


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    #456
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,705 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Ya, I was thinking of mowing and baling straight away. Thanks for the advice.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #457
    endainoz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,746 ✭✭✭endainoz


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Ya, I was thinking of mowing and baling straight away. Thanks for the advice.

    Not sure where your based in the country Patsy but I see a small bit of rain forecast for North Clare later on in the week. Temps are definitely dropping from Wednesday by a good 8 to 10 degrees for a few days.


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    #458
    Castlekeeper
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    Ya, I was thinking of mowing and baling straight away. Thanks for the advice.

    If it still looks green it'll be perfect.


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    #459
    YFlyer
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    Still waters wrote: »
    I was near the bog yesterday working and the amount of hay made around is unreal, made in land you couldn't travel a lot of years, i was talking to one man in his 70s he can't remember a spell of weather like this since he was a young man, men like him have awful heavy land and this spell of weather is suiting them, he said he could do another month without rain and it wouldnt matter to him, this weather isn't suiting everyone but working to others benefit not having to be pulling tractors out of soft holes all summer

    He is just missing the bottles of Harp.


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    #460
    CHOPS01
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    Just walked ground to be cut later in the week. Disgusted to say the least. Gone stemy since I walked it last week and the bulk has gone out of it completely.


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    #461
    SouthWesterly
    Registered Users Posts: 6,521 ✭✭✭SouthWesterly


    endainoz wrote: »
    Not sure where your based in the country Patsy but I see a small bit of rain forecast for North Clare later on in the week. Temps are definitely dropping from Wednesday by a good 8 to 10 degrees for a few days.

    Hopefully it will come down over the estuary.


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    #462
    TooOldBoots
    Closed Accounts Posts: 604 ✭✭✭TooOldBoots


    CHOPS01 wrote: »
    Just walked ground to be cut later in the week. Disgusted to say the least. Gone stemy since I walked it last week and the bulk has gone out of it completely.

    Same as that, I made silage this weekend, it was starting to wilt growing. I reckon it was starting to reduce with this heat. I was lucky enough to have the meadows closed early, they were still back a bit from every other year but had bulked up enough to justify cutting


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    #463
    Tileman
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    TooOldBoots wrote: »
    Same as that, I made silage this weekend, it was starting to wilt growing. I reckon it was starting to reduce with this heat. I was lucky enough to have the meadows closed early, they were still back a bit from every other year but had bulked up enough to justify cutting

    I have some hay meadows under Glas. They are wilting away. It will be all second growth by the tine they are allowed to cut.


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    #464
    richie123
    Registered Users Posts: 790 ✭✭✭richie123


    memorystick wrote: »
    What about the nitrogen

    Good dry well wilted grass nitrogen not as big an issue in that scenario.though it was borderline cutting so early.


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    #465
    Danzy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,361 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    I have silage ready to cut now, but neighbour was saying it's way too dry. He said it would be better to wait for some rain and then cut. Moisture way too low he says. I'm not set up to handle hay.

    You'll be waiting I fear, I'd lean to cut.


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    #466
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users Posts: 18,209 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    I have silage ready to cut now, but neighbour was saying it's way too dry. He said it would be better to wait for some rain and then cut. Moisture way too low he says. I'm not set up to handle hay.

    Another problem with that is that after rain any N in the roots will be released up into the plant. Grass that is often borderline for N before rain has very high N for s while after rain

    Slava Ukrainii



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    #467
    duffysfarm
    Registered Users Posts: 846 ✭✭✭duffysfarm


    Parked jeep and 8x4 builders trailer in field for about a week and moved it yesterday. About an inch or inch and half of lovely dark green grass under where the jeep and trailer was parked as compared to absolutely nothing around it.


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    #468
    greenfield21
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    Hopefully with reduced sun over next few days we have a better chance of growth even with the little rain in the forecast. Very little rain needed here to get things moving, heavy land...


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    #469
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    https://twitter.com/ofenton/status/1267837869491662853?s=19


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    #470
    whelan2
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    Last load of silage coming in now. Few rain drops falling. Can see the forest fires in the distance. Some smoke from them


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    #471
    SouthWesterly
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    Some nice clouds rolling in. Was fascinating watching the wall of cloud over Clare this afternoon.

    I took a look under my wood chips in the veggie garden. Ground is still wet where they are. Rest of the garden is cracking.
    My grass will be getting cut in the next week or so for hay.


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    #472
    visatorro
    Registered Users Posts: 3,113 ✭✭✭visatorro


    whelan2 wrote:
    Last load of silage coming in now. Few rain drops falling. Can see the forest fires in the distance. Some smoke from them

    You get much rain? Nothing here


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    #473
    Kevhog1988
    Registered Users Posts: 3,968 ✭✭✭Kevhog1988


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Last load of silage coming in now. Few rain drops falling. Can see the forest fires in the distance. Some smoke from them

    the ones in Kildare?.


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    #474
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,153 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    visatorro wrote: »
    You get much rain? Nothing here

    A few drops.


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    #475
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,153 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Kevhog1988 wrote: »
    the ones in Kildare?.

    In the cooley mountains


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    #476
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,494 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    whelan2 wrote: »
    A few drops.

    Same here.


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    #477
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,153 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    _Brian wrote: »
    Same here.

    You know that smell when rain falls on very dry ground


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    #478
    148multi
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    Nice soft rain now


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    #479
    Thepillowman
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    whelan2 wrote: »
    You know that smell when rain falls on very dry ground

    Petrichor is what it's called believe it or not.


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    #480
    dePeatrick
    Registered Users Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭dePeatrick


    Thepillowman wrote: »
    Petrichor is what it's called believe it or not.
    I never once thought to look it up and I can always smell the rain coming sometimes as much as several hours beforehand, it is a very distinctive smell. Yer a gas man for knowing that :)


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    #481
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,641 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    I have just been to the front door and back door, nothing smells any different here. No rain on the wind. I felt like that chap in the add selling umbrellas - out beckoning clouds in his direction.


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